So, I work at a bakery around home during the weekends. I take a train all the way from New Brunswick, NJ to Lyndhurst, NJ. For those who do not know where that is, it is a good hour and a half train ride. I mean...I really cannot complain because I am the one doing this at my own will other than my credit card debt and negative debit card balance.
However, what I am about to complain about, I have all the rights. Mind you that I work 5 am to 1 pm on saturdays and work 5 am to 11 am on sundays. This is perfect! I just work and catch the train at 2:03 pm. BUT!!!! This week on, they started putting me on till 5 am till 1 pm on sundays as well. Are they serious? I asked the boss to change it and he said ask someone to come in at 11 am and you can leave. Is he serious?! Yeah he is. Because of that devil, I got back on campus at 6 pm.
What I am irked about is that there are more than enough girls at the store. They are honestly on their iphones or twiddling their thumbs cause they have nothing to do. However, when I ask to leave to save them money and my time (which costs more than $9 an hour), the boss is all "no." Actually, he is not even no. He just walks away and mumbles something under his breath. Sir, I have a hard time listening to you already and you are gonna walk away as you mumble?! Idiot!
As I am working there, the boss tells me to stay at register even though there are no customers. The other girls are still twiddling their thumbs by the breads and such and I am alone at the register twiddling my thumbs by a drafty door. Lovely! I got a flu shot for nothing cause I am bound to get a cold in this below 30 degrees of a facilitation. I am not even lying. They are so stingy that they gave us sweaters so they don't have to turn the heat up. Maybe you should have gotten us a parka then!
I am sitting there and the man says "do you want orange juice?" Mind you, I hate this man and I do not appreciate oranges nor their juices unless they are in my screwdriver with a ratio of 2 vodka to 1 orange juice. I said "no" and smiled cause you know...the man still pays me. Then he said "want a banana?" Is he serious? I want to leave. I do not want your fruit stand! So I said "no thank you" and smiled. Then, he was all "oh yeah. Asians do not eat bananas." Is this man serious? Actually, at this point I am not surprised. The man has said so many racial things to me that I can have a law suit. Things like don't they teach common sense where you come from? For the record, I am from Jersey City in New Jersey which is last time I checked, the U.S.A. Instead of taking his garbage, I said "we like bananas and what is with you and your racial assumptions." He said "I am not racial" as he smirks like a five year that just hit his little brother. So I said "oh no? Then I guess you are just ignorant!" and smiled as if I hit my older brother after he told me to be quiet cause he is talking to his girl friend. At this point, the boss was like "maybe." What else can he say?
I didn't get to leave at 11 am like I was supposed to, but I left at 12 pm after handling an issue in the store. The manager was hiding in the back so I had to step in be the manager of the day. Call the boss about the issue, apologize to the customer, and give them free stuff to make them rate us well in yelp cause that is all the boss cares about after making money.
All jokes aside, work is work. There are few people that enjoy their job. If you enjoy your work like maybe Mr. Bill Gates, then good for you. I am a hungry, chubby....well that is ironic or an oxymoron. Anyhow I am a poor student trying to get an education as well as make a living. Things are hard, but I guess they can be worse (knock wood). I hope you found my lousy day and somewhat of a triumph against my boss funny and not think I am this sarcastic and exhausted little girl even though I am.
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